Jesse Pollard <pollard@tomcat.admin.navo.hpc.mil> said:
[...]
> I wonder if it could be coded as
> fork() --- reserve one or two pages for anticipated fork.
> on next page fault or syscall -- If page fault or non-exec syscall,
> reserve the entire worst case memory amount.
Here your fork(2) could fail, if no overcommit. But the fork() in the
parent has already returned...
> If syscall is exec then allocate/reserve memory for the
> new image.
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